On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, David Warde-Farley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19-Nov-09, at 5:41 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > >> Yes, I am using the Snow Leopard OSX. Should I be coding through >> the Xcode >> interface and not Python's IDLE shell? > > Using the Xcode IDE is not necessary and probably far from optimal for > what you're doing; however Xcode installs all of the command line > tools (gcc, g++, make) that are typically needed to build packages.
I am not building anything at the moment. I am simply trying to learn Python as it pertains to Natural Language Processing. The book I am using offers tutorials that sometimes require the installation of other program: nltk, numpy, matplotlib, Prover9, MaltParser, and MegaM. So far, I have only succeeded with installing nltk, numpy, and matplotlib. Nevertheless, I figure I should address this error message about matplotlib first. I am using matplotlib-0.99.1.1. with Python 2.6. > >> You distinguish between system wide installation and user >> installation. You >> may have seen from my post to Eric, that I found and installed .dmg >> downloads for numpy and matplotlib. I have tried to figure out >> where these >> installed themselves, but I haven't found them in the user folder. >> I assume >> they have been installed system wide. Is this going to be a problem? > > The DMGs install in system-wide directories, /Library/Frameworks/ > Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages I'm > guessing. The --user stuff should be used if you are installing > against the Python that Apple ships with OS X. They also ship an old & > crusty version of NumPy, I think. Yes, my MacBook Pro came with Python 2.5. Pierre recommends iPython, but the book I am using to learn Python (Natural Language Processing with Python) says that the NLTK won't work with anything above version 2.6. I discovered that limitation after first installing Python 3.x. I don't know if iPython is compatible with the NLTK. What do you think, Pierre? > > Unless Apple has relocated their Python install for 10.6 (it used to > be in /System) it looks like you downloaded Python from Python.org > since it's in /Library, in which case Pierre's fears about messing up > the system install aren't a problem. > > David > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
